In
SharePoint 2013, Design Manager renders a new trend for creating
websites. This tool is accessible when you activate the Publishing
Infrastructure feature or use the Publishing Portal site template at the
site collection level. The purpose of this new tool is to offer users
an easy way of branding SharePoint. This advanced tool allows designers
to create a compelling behavior, look and feel for a SharePoint 2013
site by using the techniques they are most comfortable with. It also
supports exporting and importing of a visual design, and thus helps you
assure a consistent visual experience across all device platforms in
your industry.
This
article discusses about the designing and support capabilities involved
in this development technology. Let's have a quick tour through
SharePoint 2013.
Considerations for SharePoint Designers or Developers:
- Design packages: To create as well as export the visual designs as a package.
- Device channels: To create, change or delete a device channel along with reorder device channels in SP 2013.
- Image renditions: To create, edit as well as delete image renditions that define the attributes used for the purpose of displaying images in the publishing sites.
- Display templates: To relate display templates to Search Web Parts. Learn about how the templates are organized, for mapping properties by using jQuery or variables, or creating a custom display template.
- Themes: To use themes for customizing the look and feel of the sites.
- Snippets: To use the Snippet Gallery in Design Manager so that you are able to add SharePoint functionality quickly to your HTML page layout or master page. Snippets are HTML representations of SharePoint components and hence a snippet helps in controlling like a Web Part or a navigation bar.
Design Manager to Implement Designs
On
the left side of this tool, there is a series of links representing the
high-level tasks that need to be performed. Based on your designing
plan as well as the requisites of your site, you might not have to carry
out all these performances in thorough order. Nevertheless, this
sequence is a vital starting point.
Before
you start using this technology, you need a scheming. You can use a
ready-made website template or create one of your own. A designing is
simply a group of files that employ the visual designing of your site.
Generally, the file categories include:
- At least one HTML file which is going to be changed into a SharePoint master page
- JavaScript files
- One or more CSS files
- Different supporting files
- Images
Design Manager to Customize Your SharePoint 2013 Site
In
order to represent your company's brand or if you want it to be
designed in a way that does not look like SharePoint, you can easily
customize your site as per your preference. Creating a custom design by
using Design Manager can help you achieve the desired business goal. The
new tool is a feature in SharePoint 2013 making it easier to create a
fully pixel-perfect and customized design implementing the web-designing
tools that you find yourself familiar with. It is a publishing
dimension that can be made available in publishing sites in both Office
365 and SP Server 2013. The technology can also be used for branding the
public-facing website in Office 365.
This
tool can also help in creating visual designs for websites by applying
any web design tool or HTML editor of your choice, and then upload that
designing to SharePoint. Design Manager is the central hub as well as
interface where all aspects of a custom designing is properly managed.
Often, visual designing creations of publishing sites fit into the
larger process, in which thousands of people as well as administrations
are involved. You can hire developers from top companies in sharepoint development who can help you build products within allocated budgets and time schedules.
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